Human Rights Watch (HRW) renewed its call for governments to address racial discrimination and inequalities in healthcare, in the statement issued on Monday. In its statement, HRW cited General Recommendation No. 37 of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) concerning racial discrimination and the right to health. The NGO had…
The European Union (EU) Commission has published a draft set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the interpretation of certain provisions of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the first set of European Sustainability Reporting (ESRS)1. The FAQs, published on 7 August 2024, come ahead of the first reporting cycle applying the new CSRD rules…
(Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images) Black Card: “We have terrible news. Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15 to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from racist billionaire Donald Trump’s very stupid wall. Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire, ………… snuck up on us from behind and completely fucked…
Background: FILE — Violent rioters loyal to President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File). Inset: Celena Belton, left, and Bennett Blair inside the U.S. Capitol (Dept. of Justice court filing). A Virginia couple is under arrest for allegedly breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 —…
On September 18, 2024, the Texas Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) announced that it reached “a first-of-its-kind settlement with a Dallas-based artificial intelligence healthcare technology called Pieces Technologies” (“Pieces”) to resolve “allegations that the company deployed its products at several Texas hospitals after making a series of false and misleading statements about the accuracy…
The settlement is the latest example of the agency’s enhanced criminal enforcement of money transmitting business and international money-laundering laws. Takeaways The recent settlement is significant both in terms of its amount and the breadth and complexity of the alleged money transfers, including transfers connected to mainland China. This increased criminal enforcement activity emphasizes the…
Mega international firm Dentons is facing a public corruption investigation in South Africa. Officials there are looking into the massive fraud under former President Jacob Zuma and his associates, the Gupta brothers. The Guptas are wanted for a practice of “state capture,” using their network of family businesses to get public contracts through their relationship…
Israeli troops raided Al Jazeera’s offices in the West Bank on Sunday and ordered the bureau to shut down for 45 days amid a widening crackdown on Al Jazeera that began in May. According to Al Jazeera, heavily armed and masked Israeli soldiers forcefully entered the network’s building in Ramallah and handed a 45-day closure…
Main: FILE – Rep. Aftyn Behn, D-Nashville, talks on a bill brought to the House floor April 15, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File). Inset: FILE – An abortion-rights demonstrator holds a sign during a rally, May 14, 2022, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File). A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked Tennessee’s…
